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    Airframe Family: Boeing B464 / B-52 Stratofortress
    Latest Model:B-52D-30-BW Stratofortress
    Last Military Serial:56-0659 USAF
    Construction Number:464030
    Compressed ID:Boeing B-52D-30-BW sn 56-0659 USAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a B-52D-30-BW by Boeing at Wichita, Kansas, USA.

    Circa 1956

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 56-0659.

    By 1979

    Transferred to 337th Bomb Squadron, 96th Bomb Wing, Dyess AFB, TX.

    From 9 May 1979 to 23 May 1979

    Represented the US Strategic Air Command in the 1979 RAF Bombing Competition.

    25 May 1982

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number BC283.

    From After 1982 to By 2014

    To Warrior Park, DavisMonthan AFB (North Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    9 September 2008


    Photographer: Richard Lane

    December 2013

    Scrapped.

    Placed on display with Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
    Only the tail gunner positions survives at Pima.
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    26 May 2014


    Photographer: Richard Talley
    Notes: Scrapped in Dec 2013, tail turret preserved at Pima Air Museum
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